UNC, Duke Cardiologists Spearhead Patient Care Improvement Effort

Cardiologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Duke Clinical Research Institute and other leading medical centers officially launched a 60,000-patient project aimed at encouraging physicians to follow published practice guidelines for high-risk acute cardiac patients.
The quality improvement initiative is named CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress ADverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the American College of ...